Around The World in a Piper 2 of 2

[BigTruck]

2 months into the trip I have gone from New Orleans to Lukla, Nepal.

[an-225]

Good luck with your trip. Both threads are great.

#3 is quite nice, the way the valley encompasses your Cheyenne.

[SubZer0]

Very nice. I hope you're enjoying the trip  :)

I have the same plane but for FSX. I love it as well. I'm just too impatient to circumnavigate the entire planet  :-/

[Rich H]

Good Luck! Are you going to hop from Russia to Alaska?

[Anxyous]

What a kinda-coincidence, I'm currently residing in the Bahamas on my Caribbean tour

How many miles have you approximately flown? I have no idea how long New Orleans - Lukla would be, with whatever number of landings...

And what's the speed of that plane?

Good luck!

EDIT: And lemme know when you stop by Denmark

[BigTruck]

Well, the average speed that I fly the plane is about 180IAS at FL260 which gives me a ground speed usually around 250kts depending on wind.  I have had cruises where my ground speed was over 300kts.  

I generally fly in 1 hour hops so I don't get bored, and I try to take the most scenic route as possible, but a few of the hops were pretty long just to get past any boring sections.  Getting across the Atlantic was a long one, flew straight from St John's in Canada to Gibralter, with a stop at one of those islands off the coast of Africa.

I've already gone over Europe using the coast of the Med Sea and spent yesterday on a high altitude pass over the Middle East, too boring to fly low and slow, nothing but brown dirt down there haha, so I made it in one trip, stopped in Afghanistan for fuel, and decided to to make the hop from Kabul, Afghanistan to Lukla, Nepal.

I don't know how many miles I have gone so far, but I fly at least an hour a day, and it has taken me about a month and a half to two months to get to Nepal.  I plan to make the Russia-Alaska hop instead of Japan to Hawaii, because there is nowhere in between the US and Hawaii for me to stop for fuel and I don't know if the Cheyenne will make that far of a hop, going to try it though after I complete my tour.

[Rich H]

I'm quite tempted to do one of these flights now.
Edit: Has anyone read or seen Michael Palin's Full Circle? I was thinking of doing that in a 727.

[BFMF]

It's been awhile, but I have flown around the world in FS quite a few times. Maybe one day i'll do another one

[jime59]

Maybe you can luck-out between Cal/Hawaii and do a pit stop on a carrier that just happened to be in the vicinty.

Nice pics by the way.

[BigTruck]

It's been awhile, but I have flown around the world in FS quite a few times. Maybe one day i'll do another one

I've done it twice, once in the captain sim c130, and once in the alpha sim S3 Viking.  This one is taking the longest though obviously, slower plane.  I was going to do it in the Bonanza but after it took me 2 weeks to get across the US I figured I'd speed it up a bit with the Cheyenne.  Next trip I will actually document with screen shots, this one is just to see if the plane has the range to do it.  So far so good.

[BigTruck]

Maybe you can luck-out between Cal/Hawaii and do a pit stop on a carrier that just happened to be in the vicinty.

Nice pics by the way.

Thanks!  Not sure I want to roll the dice on that one haha, I'd be pretty upset if I was flying for 6 hours just to run out of fuel looking for the carrier  ;)

[Anxyous]

I can make you an airport in the middle of the Pacific, if you'd like it

[flyboy 28]

[quote]I'd be pretty upset if I was flying for 6 hours just to run out of fuel looking for the carrier

[BigTruck]

[quote][quote]I'd be pretty upset if I was flying for 6 hours just to run out of fuel looking for the carrier